Can I invent my own Slots?

[Aaron Laws]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 9:19 AM, David Goodenough <
david.goodenough at linkchoose.co.uk> wrote:

> Gnucash seems to store a variety of things in key-value pairs known as
> slots.  Can I invent my own slot keywords and therefore add my own
> data into the GnuCash datastore in a way that GnuCash will be able to
> return to me later and will not cause problems to normal operations?
>
> Presumeably I should try to make sure my keywords are going to be
> unique to me and not likely to be used by GnuCash, say by starting them
> with my application name.
>
> David
>
>
As far as I know (not very far at all), that seems fine. Of course, I don't
think gnucash will read your slots unless you modify it to do so. As
always, backup first!